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Front-end nuclear fuel supply cooperation: Turning allied interdependence into strategic advantage
The global nuclear revival, which is fueled by unprecedented demand for firm, affordable, dispatchable power for artificial intelligence and data center build-out, energy security imperatives, and climate commitments, has exposed a structural reality of the Western fuel cycle: No single allied nation currently possesses the full suite of front-end capabilities. From mining through conversion, enrichment, fabrication, and the emerging deconversion and metallization steps required for reactor fuels, capability is distributed across Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (collectively, the “Sapporo Five”), as well as a small group of close partners.
P. Kohut
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 115 | Number 4 | December 1993 | Pages 320-333
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE93-A24062
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The results of a numerical analysis of the eigenvalue spectrum and eigenmodes of the monoenergetic integral transport equation are presented. Anisotropic scattering effects are explicitly considered with P1 and P2 expansions. Benchmark quality data are produced for three related onedimensional homogeneous multiplying slab problems: fuel with vacuum boundary, fuel with reflectors, and fuel/reflector infinite lattice. Two low-order spatial expansion techniques are investigated and shown to be equivalent in accuracy to analytical or high-order spatial expansion methods. The weak finite element formulation is shown to be slightly more accurate than the comparably sized quadrature formulation. The calculational results of the isotropic and anisotropic analysis are compared with data available in the literature and extended to provide additional results reflecting the effects of linearly and quadratically anisotropic scattering.